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• Question: I'm curious about the depictions of Loki with red hair. Thor is mentioned as having red hair and Heimdall as having white-blond hair, but Loki's hair color isn't mentioned. It is because of the resemblance of the word logi (Fire) with Loki? Or because foxes where seen as tricksters in some European cultures? Also I believe that somewhere he's mentioned as having odd colored eyes but I'm not finding that reference now. So is red hair just a tradition? - drachenkinder
• Answer:

  lokeanwelcomingcommittee:

  We don’t get much physical description of the gods in general. Technically, none of the things you mention are explicitly stated in the Eddas. Thor having red hair is a folk tradition. The line about Hemdallr being “white” could mean he’s got really blond hair, but it could also mean that he’s a nice guy or that he’s effeminate.  (The fact that it’s brought up right before he suggests cross-dressing to Thor kind of makes me lean toward the latter, personally.) And the only physical description we get of Loki is an off-hand comment by Snorri in Gylfaginning that he’s attractive. No reasoning behind why he’s attractive, just that he is. His hair color and eye color are never mentioned.

  The reason he’s often depicted as a redhead in art is because of Jacob Grimm’s now-disproven theory that Loki and Logi the god of fire are the same figure based on etymology. (The modern academic consensus is that the two words don’t actually share the same root.) Wagner ran with Grimm’s theory in the Ring Cycle, and the rest is history. Some people depict him with fiery red eyes for the same reason.
  

  To this day, some people are really attached to the redhead thing for some reason, and will try to “correct” you if you dare depict him as anything else. But the fact remains that he’s a shapeshifter with no recorded hair or eye color in the lore, and that he’s not literally a human with a physical body to begin with. “Seeing” him with another hair color is perfectly fine and doesn’t mean your experiences are invalid. I almost never have him show up as a redhead myself.
  

  - Mod E
  

idiosyncraticwordsmith:

Anyway pedophilia is fucking evil, pedophiles can burn, and at no point in history nor under any current or future circumstances should be considered queer or part of any other defensible community because pedophilia is, as it were, indefensible by nature.

If you have any opinions to the contrary, I tell you now that you are wrong - either maliciously so or ignorantly so, but you are wrong, wrong, dead wrong.

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broomclosetwitches:

The Celtic world included Ireland, Britain, and a large section of the mainland

Aine: Goddess of love and fertility; encouraged human love; has command over crops and animals; daughter of Eogabail  

Amaethon: God of agriculture 

Anu or Danu/Dana: Mother goddess 

Aonghus: God of love; son of Dagda and Boann

Badb: Irish goddess of battle; could influence the outcome of conflict by inspiring fear or bravery in warriors

Balor: The one-eyed god of death, everyone he looked upon was destroyed

Belenus or Bel: Sun god; appears throughout the Celtic world in different forms; Beltaine celebrates him 

Boann: Water goddess; mother of Aonghus

Brigantia: Chief goddess of Brigantes tribe; associated with water, war and healing

Brigid/Brigit: Goddess of healing and fertility; said to help women during labor; possibly same goddess as Brigantia 

Camulos: God of war mostly worshiped in Belgium areas; said to wield an invincible sword

Ceridwen: Goddess of fertility

Cernunnos: God of wild animals, forest, and plenty; possibly also the god of death; known as the horned one

Cliodhna: Goddess of beauty; her three birds could sing the sick to sleep and heal them 

Dagda: The great god; could restore the dead to life

Dian Cecht: God of healing 

Don: Welsh version of Dana

Donn: God of the dead

Dylan: Sea god

Epona: Horse goddess

The Formorii: Sea gods; violent and misshapen

Goibhniu: Smith god 

Lir: God of sea, healing  and magic 

Lugh: Sun god (Ireland)

Lugus:  Sun god (France and Britain) 

Mac Cecht: God of eloquence

Macha: One of the war goddess

Manannan Mac Lir: Sea god; could stir up or soothe the sea

Manawydan: Welsh sea god, extremely similar to Manannan

Morrigan/Morrigu: Goddess of death on the battlefield 

Nechtan: Water god 

Nemain: Goddess of war

Nemglan: Bird god

Nodens: God of healing; owned magic healing hounds

Ogma: God of eloquence; creating of Ogham, the oldest writing system in Ireland

Taranis: Name means thunderer; Romans equated him to Jupiter; symbol was the wheel

Teutates or Toutatis: Romans equated him to Mars

**Not all inclusive 

All information gathered from “The Illustrated Encyclopedia of World Mythology by Arthur Cotterell and Rachel Storm 

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nordicsublime:

Glin. castle - Catherine FitzGerald

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moarrrmagazine:

Oh, my robot! 3D printed robot planters

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• Question: So, obviously there exists a staggering amount of literature about anti-fascism, socialism, and anarchism. But do you or any of your followers have reccomendations of children's books teaching such values? My 7 year old nephew is very into video games, and as we know modern fascists often prey on young white male gamers to indoctrinate them. I'd like him to be prepared for that possibility. - Anonymous
• Answer:

  kropotkindersurprise:

  antifainternational:

  Very timely question Anon, what with gift-giving time around the corner for a lot of people!  
  
  We’re not specifically a socialist or anarchist blog so we probably won’t be of much help with those topics, but we are an anti-fascist blog and we’re happy to report that the list of antifa books for kids has expanded well beyond The Diary of Anne Frank.  Here’s a list of six books for kids related to anti-fascism.  There are lots of lists of anti-racist children’s books like this list of 26 books for kids about racism.  Finally, here’s a great checklist for checking what you’re giving the lil’ folks to make sure it’s not rife with subtle & discriminatory bias.  
  
  Start ‘em young, folks.
  

  

  

gladnis:

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Hey peeps!

Remember to drink water, use the restroom, check your pets and take breaks!

drawingden:

WebGL Water is a great water simulator, with a sphere that can interact with the water’s surface. It can be paused which means you can then use it as a reference for lighting, reflections, refractions, etc.

Painting Tutorials:

• Water in Motion 
  
• Ocean Waves
• Water Bubbles
• Water Surface
• Stormy Sea Waves
• Condensation
• Water Droplets
• More Various Tutorials

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lines-and-edges:

venomanti:

venomanti:

weird how I became a much more compassionate and accepting person when I realised that drug addiction is the symptom of a problem and not the problem in itself

you also start to realise just how much the War On Drugs was actually a war against the poor, against survivors, against trans people, against sex workers, against the mentally ill and the disabled, against PoC, against queers, against the homeless. how much of it was a government manufactured ploy to sell violence against the marginalized as violence against addiction, as if addiction was not a symptom of systemic abuse.

It’s true and you should say it.

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